SEPTEMBER 17:# Planned Orbital Flight Test 1 (Boe-OFT) to the ISS of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner reusable capsule. The unmanned launch will be on an Atlas 5 (N22) AV-080 from Cape Canaveral Complex 41.

SEPTEMBER 25:+# Soyuz ISS 61S next expedition crew launch from Baikonur to the ISS.

OCTOBER 09:* A Pegasus XL, air-launched from Cape Canaveral from the L-1011 'Stargazer', will launch ICON (Ionospheric Connection Explorer) into low Earth orbit.

NOVEMBER:+# Planned first manned test flight (Boe-CFT) of a Boeing CST-100 Starliner capsule to the ISS, on an Atlas 5 (401) rocket from Cape Canaveral Complex 41. Parachute landing on land in the US southwest.

> Moon Express plans to set up a robotic research outpost near the lunar south pole and prospect for water and other resources.

> Team Indus (India) plans to launch its first unmanned Lunar mission.

2019:> China plans to launch the Chang'e 5 lunar sample return mission, on a Long March 5 from the new near-equatorial spaceport Wenchang on Hainan Island. The mission will make an automatic rendezvous and docking with a return module in lunar orbit before flying back to Earth.

- China plans to launch the 1st module (Tianhe-1) of a new space station (Tiangong 3) into orbit on a Long March 5 booster.After this core module, the 2nd and 3rd modules will be launched in 2020 and 2022.

% ESA will possibly test its new Advanced Re-entry Vehicle, which will be able to bring cargo back from the ISS.

%# Russia plans to launch the OKA-T microgravity laboratory on a Soyuz 2-1b from Vostochny.The human-tended spacecraft is able to dock with the ISS.

- The first UK spaceport is planned to become operational.

+# Russia plans to conduct a simulated Mars flight aboard the ISS. After a year on the Space Station cosmonauts would return to Earth for a brief period and then go back to the ISS for a further year. WW2

> PTScientists (Germany) plans to launch a Quattro rover to the Taurus Littrow Valley on the Moon.

+> Possible first tourist flight to orbit the Moon. The Deep Space Exploration - Alpha mission will use a Soyuz TMA and a 2nd habitationmodule plus an additional Block DM propulsion module launched separately on a Proton rocket. After a possible stopover at the ISS the Soyuz willdock with the 2 modules. An unmanned test flight will be flown first.